{"id":15304,"date":"2026-04-22T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/15304\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:36:08","slug":"trump-team-demands-entry-fee-before-canada-talks-carney-says-us-doesnt-dictate-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/15304\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump team demands \u2018entry fee\u2019 before Canada talks, Carney says US doesn\u2019t dictate terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The US does not get to dictate the terms of coming trade talks, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Wednesday, following reports Washington wants an \u201centry fee\u201d before agreeing to open negotiations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The United States and Canada are set to hold talks on revising a North American free trade agreement, a pact US President Donald Trump signed and praised during his first term but now dismisses as \u201cirrelevant\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Quoting multiple Canadian sources, Canada\u2019s public broadcaster CBC reported on Wednesday that Trump\u2019s team wants an \u201centry fee,\u201d or concessions, from Canada before starting talks on revising the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Prominent Canadian politician and former Quebec premier Jean Charest, now a member of Carney\u2019s advisory council on US trade, told French public broadcaster Radio-Canada that Trump is demanding \u201cconcessions before we sit down at the table\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Asked about those reports in Ottawa, and whether Canada will give concessions to persuade the US to talk, Carney said \u201cno\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump (right) and Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney gesture as they meet in the Oval Office in October 2025. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/68aa11b1-872c-4371-b48d-0e3a26d2dd97_91e041d6.jpg\" title=\"US President Donald Trump (right) and Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney gesture as they meet in the Oval Office in October 2025. Photo: Reuters\"\/>US President Donald Trump (right) and Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Mark Carney gesture as they meet in the Oval Office in October 2025. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s not a case of the United States dictates the terms,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US does not get to dictate the terms of coming trade talks, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[17,351,8084,8083,162,4079,590,7492,7183,111,6002,94,61,241,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-15304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mark-carney","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-canadian","10":"tag-cbc","11":"tag-congress","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-doug-ford","14":"tag-howard-lutnick","15":"tag-jamieson-greer","16":"tag-jean-charest","17":"tag-mark-carney","18":"tag-north-american-free-trade-agreement","19":"tag-ontario","20":"tag-ottawa","21":"tag-quebec","22":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}